Chords for Slant chords on the Dobro guitar

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Hi, Jim [B] Warren here.
_ [G] I've been hearing lately that a lot of people are trying to learn the
slants [F] on the dobro.
They've been having some problems with it and
maybe I can help out a little bit.
I can't show you how to do it, but I can show you how it's [G] done
if that'll be of any help.
We'll start out with some slants on the first _ string, string [Bm] one and two. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Db] Normally most people [B] don't use the slants nowadays, just us old guys.
_ _ _ _ But _ _ _ _ [Bm] you start out here on the 12th fret, of course, it's the G chord. _ _ _
[Gb] _ [F] _ _ [B] You go to string two and three [G] back at the 12th fret.
_ _ [Bbm] _ _ [F] _
[G] _ But you have to change strings and it breaks up the _
[B] _ whole thing.
So if you just stay on the first two [Bm] strings you can _ [Gb] _ _ [F] _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ go_
Where we're at here is fret eight and nine, _ which is the same thing as up here on string one and two.
_ _ _ _ [B] _ [Bbm] See [F] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ how much smoother that is?
And of course you can go back the other way. _
[F] _ [Bbm] _ [Bm] _ _ [B] _ _ _ [Em] _
_ [G] _ _ [N] And of course you can use those anywhere on the fretboard.
Say if you're in the key of E, you [E] just start at the ninth fret, which is E.
_ [Eb] _ [B] _
_ [E] _ _ _ [Bm] _ [Eb] _ [E] _ _
_ [D] _ [E] _ [G] They're [E] just [Bm] straight.
[E] _
_ _ [B] _ _ [E] You're slant.
[Bm] _
[E] One _ _ thing you have to keep [B] in mind is if you change any position on the keyboard from the fretboard,
_ [G] you'll have to put your frets a lot closer [N] together and down here they're a lot farther apart.
Then of course you have to change the angle of your bar.
_ _ _ _ [G] Like here,
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your angle is
less pronounced than it would be if you were, say, going down here playing the key of D.
[D] _ [Fm] _
[Em] _ _ [D] _ _ You'd have to slant your bar more because the [F] frets are farther apart down here than they are [B] up here.
_ It takes a lot of practice to do slants. _
_ _ There's [N] two ways that you're going to do one thing.
Practice, practice, [Ab] practice.
And I think even more
[G] _ more than that is determination.
[Fm] You've got to have the determination to say to yourself,
Damn it, [G] I'm gonna learn to do this one way or the other.
_ _ _ [N] You can learn to do it if you're going to take that attitude.
_ Now some more slants.
_ I'll give you some examples on strings one and three.
We're not playing the second string at all.
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Okay, here's five frets up from any root chord you can get. _ _ _ _ _
There's your G right there,
which is the same as up here on string three and five.
_ _ _ _ _ This way you won't have to jump [B] all over the fretboard from one place [F] to another to find the chords and it makes it playing smoother and easier.
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_ [F] _ [Gb] _ [G] _ _ There it is straight.
_ [F] _ _ [Gb] _ [G] _ _ _ [B]
Here it is with slants, but
_ [Em] this one here is a one fret slant, but the next two notes are going to be two fret slants.
So you've got to angle your bar more.
[Am] _ _ [Bbm] _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
[A] _ [Fm] _ [G] _ _ [Am] _ [Bbm] _ _ [Bm] _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ There's a number of different places you can get the same thing.
You can do it straight
[Am] _ [Bbm] _ [G] _ _ or like I just showed you down here.
[Am] _ [Gb] _ [Bm] _ _ _
_ [G] Or you can do a reverse slant and do it all on string two _ and four. _ _
[F] _ [Bbm] _ [G] _ _ _ _ Or you can go down here and you can do on string three and five and start out straight and then do slants after that.
[Am] _ [Gb] _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ [Gb] _ [Ab] _ [B] _ _ _ [F] _
[G] _ _ _ [F] _ [G] _ _ _ [Am] _
[Bm] _ _ _ [N] _ So there's any number of places.
Of course you can use those same slants in any key to change where you are on the fretboard.
_ _ _ _ I'll play you a little bit of something here with slants on the first two strings.
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This one called Carry Me Back to the Mountains.
I'll just play a little bit of that,
give you an example of how smooth it can be by using the slants.
_ _ [F] _ [Eb] _ [E] _ [F] _ _ _
[E] _ _ [F] _ [E] _ [F] _ _ [Em] _ _
_ [C] _ [Db] _ [B] _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ [B] _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
[E] _ [F] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ _ [D] _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ See how smooth that is?
That's the old-timey style that [N] almost nobody plays anymore. _ _
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